Famous quotes containing the word strange:
“Broken by great waves,
the wavelets flung it here,
this sea-gliding creature,
this strange creature like a weed....”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“I dreamed that one had died in a strange place
Near no accustomed hand;
And they had nailed the boards above her face....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“A puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odours of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out the still nightthe first sigh of the East on my face. That I can never forget. It was impalpable and enslaving, like a charm, like a whispered promise of mysterious delight.... The mysterious East faced me, perfumed like a flower, silent like death, dark like a grave.”
—Joseph Conrad (18571924)
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